Plumb Line #5: Prayer Doesn’t Fuel the Ministry; Prayer Is the Ministry
It was a day everyone in Israel would talk about for centuries to come. Solomon...
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Plumb Line #11: Discipleship Happens in Relationships
People love to speculate about why pastors fall the way they do. You’ll hear theories...
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Plumb Line #14: When Life Cuts Us, We Want to Bleed God’s Word
I’m not sure why, but learning and teaching the Bible has fallen out of fashion...
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Plumb Line #13: We Are Led by the Spirit, Taught by the Word
I once heard a Christian leader say, “Better to spend one hour on your knees...
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Plumb Line #6: Live Sufficiently, Give Extravagantly
Certain topics in Scripture aren’t questions to be solved so much as they’re tensions to...
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Plumb Line #1: The Gospel Is Not Just the Diving Board; It’s the Pool
For many evangelicals, the gospel functions solely as the entry rite into Christianity; it is...
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Plumb Line #9: We Should Reflect the Diversity of Our Community & Proclaim the Diversity of the Kingdom
Hardly anyone in the American church thinks that ethnic diversity is a bad thing. And...
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Plumb Line #8: Where Trust Exists, God Moves
The Gospel of Luke records one of the most theologically bizarre stories in the entire...
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Plumb Lines for The Summit Church
Plumb lines are a series of short, pithy statements that we, at the Summit, use...
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The Great Commission Is Completed through Multiplication, Not Addition
The following coincides with a book I am releasing this August, called Gaining by Losing: Why...
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